Head riders Tyson Bolduc, Carrie Jo Chernoff take first prize

March 27th, 2006

JACKSON HOLE (USA) FINALS.

In the men's field, Head rider Tyson Bolduc won the competition by a huge 9-point margin. He flashed a line in the super finals that utilized the entire venue and clinched the win. He skied technically strong onto a pillow drop, moving onto the top of a 50-foot rock ridge, goating to the edge and front flipping into the slush below.

"It was really not skiing," said an excited Bolduc. "It was acrobatics." After a tough season, he couldn't believe it. "I'm a crasher," Bolduc said, "it's good to be on my feet."

Subaru Telluride Freeskiing Open champion Carrie Jo Chernoff from Crested Butte eked out Jackson's Lynsey Dyer by four-tenths of a point to win the championship. She took a gutsy line down a rock band in the venue's central chute and hucked off a 20 footer.

"At that point," she said about being in the super final, "it's all about having fun with it, second, third whatever, you want to ski a line that is challenging and fun … you've got to send it." Dyer nearly missed her run because her warm-up was stomping a 50-foot cliff in the ski area's backcountry for a Teton Gravity Research film sequence. "I did it," she whispered after her run, still beaming and wearing her avy beacon.